Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harbin, Consul Hanson took no sides. He made friends with everybody. He got U. S. oil promoters and fur dealers out of trouble over White Russian dancers. And he kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
Also last week the Board effected a neat propaganda coup at the Packard plant in Detroit. For nation-wide consumption, Francis E. Ross, accounting professor at the University of Michigan who is in charge of the elections, carefully explained for the newsreels the mechanics of the balloting as pictures were taken of Packard workers going to the polls. The Packard vote, a primary election to select 40 men to run for places on a 20-man collective bargaining agency, went: 2,657 for unaffiliated candidates; 2,131 for company union candidates; no for the A. F. of L. union...
...these three fields, according to Dean Clifford, Harvard has a chance to win world-wide fame if it can only extend its facilities. For in two of them, sanitary engineering and high voltage, members of the Engineering School staff have already done work of such a calibre that the University has been placed in the forefront of scientific progress...
Marshall will rely on Casey as a football strategist and looks to him to supply a repertoire of fancy, wide-open plays. Among the newcomers to the Redskins forces who will report to Casey, is Bill Shepherd, Western Maryland player, star of Dick Harlow's team last fall...
...that the members of the Liberal Club are taking life, themselves, and the importance of the Club far too seriously. Throughout the nation, for that matter, people are showing a strong tendency to jump at the first panacea that comes down the pipe. The point is not that world-wide affairs are unimportant; they are. It is not that college students should not interest themselves in government to the point where they will enter public service themselves after graduation; they should. But what America needs is to be laughed at, and to laugh at itself, loud and long; and what...